How to steal like Wall Street

[meow2u3]

BOSTON (MarketWatch) — It’s a lucky thing these kids only tried to “occupy” Wall Street.

If they’d been really radical they would have done something much more dangerous.

They would have just imitated Wall Street.

Everyone now knows the rules down on America’s Street of Shame. These are almost the exact opposite of the rules in the real, normal, moral economy the rest of us inhabit.

On Wall Street, you take every nickel and dime you can get your hands on. If it’s not nailed down, it’s yours. You take without conscience or shame. If you see a blind man selling pencils on the street, steal the pencils. Steal his pennies. Steal his dog.

On Wall Street, you gamble. You gamble big. But you gamble with other people’s money.

Borrow as much as you can. If it doesn’t work out, too bad — for someone else. Heads you win, tails they lose.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-steal-like-wall-street-2011-11-18

[louis-t]

1. My story goes like this...

If you have 5 bucks in your pocket and it's your last 5 bucks, repugs call it 'socialism'. If you are forced to take that 5 bucks out of your pocket and give it to the richest guy in the country, that's 'free market'.

[PATRICK]

2. Invent your own money

using some legal loophole. It has to be designed pretty miraculously because it is both a threat to the system and extremely illegal and enforced. Internet gaming money is one example of useless hyperinvention of currency gets crushed.
Locals trying to break away from the global system better be "incorporated" and live like Carthusian monks or somehow exempt from the hostility of corporate controlled governments. And small and everywhere at once like everyone all of a sudden waking up with solar panels a victory garden and no mortgage.

This is as hopeless as the satire implied in the article but combined it would show people two ways. TAKE the government democratically or submit. An invisible, unseen and unintended revolution similar to the effects of modern instant communications is always something that might just eliminate painful activism- like an asteroid, ground zero Wall Street.

[girl gone mad]

4. There are bitcoins..

but I think that's too problematic. Honest money must be fiat.

[PoliticAverse]

3. "privatize the profits, socialize the losses" - Just say NO. n/t